ENG 365 - African American Literature

This course examines a variety of African American writers. Emphasis will be on the development of African American literacy traditions and how contemporary writers have interpreted these traditions. Writers to be considered in the course may be drawn from the 18th, 19th or 20th centuries and may include such figures as Phillis Wheatley, Fredrick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Nella Larsen, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison.
Lecture
Credits: 3
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 212, ENG 213 or ENG 214
Core Course
DCCG: Human Diversity
Offered in Alternate Years, Spring Semester